Horse-releaser.



No. 759,200. v PATENTED MAY 8, 1904. G. H. SLATTERY. HORSE RELEASER.

APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES. INVENTUR A TTOH'NE VS No. 759,200. Patented May 3, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE HENRY SLATTERY, OF JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS W. HANEY AND HARRY AIKEN, OF JACKSON- VILLE, FLORIDA.

HORSE-RELEASER- UIFIUATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,200, dated May 3, 1904 Application filed September 29, 1903. Serial No. 175,022. (No model.)

T all w/wm it may cmwern: leasing-bar 15, mounted to slide in the casing Be it known that I, GEORGE HENRY SLAT- and having a portion extended outward TERY, a citizen of the United States, and a resi. through an opening in the top wall of the easdent of J aclisonville, in the county of Duval ing. This bar is designed to be connected 5 and State of Florida, have invented a new and by a wire or otherwise to an automatically-qr Improved 1-Iorse-Releaser, of which the folcrating mechanism for sliding said bar outlowing is a full, clear, and exact description. ward. This automatically-operating mechan- This invention relates to improvements in ism may be controlled by the alarm-gong, and devices for automatically releasing fire -deit may consist of an electromagnet with a suit- IO partment, fire-patrol, and police-patrol horses able armature.

upon the sounding of an alarm, theobject be- WVhen the parts are in the position indicated ing to provide a releaser that can be manuin Figs. 1 and 2, the animal will be secured factured at a comparatively low cost, having to the releaser. hen the bar or rod 15 is few parts liable to get out of order, and that drawn outward or upward. by the mechanism, 5 will operate with absolute certainty. as before indicated, the finger 1.3 by engaging 1 will describe a horse-releaser embodying the under side of the lever 10 will rock the my invention and then point out the novel feasame, disengaging the end 11 from the notch tures in the appended claims. 12. Then the spring '7 will rock the tumbler to Reference is to be had to the accompanying the position indicated in Fig. 3, releasing the 20 drawings, forming a part of this specification, ring 6, which will slide down the bottom inin which similar characters of reference indiclined walls of the notches 16 in the casing. cats corresponding parts in all the figures. For relocking the device or for releasing it Figure l is a side view of a horse-releaser manually the rod or bar 15 is provided with embodying my invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 a pin 17 which extends into a slot 18, formed 5 are side views with the casingface-plate rein the face-plate of the casing. It will be moved to show the different positions of the noted that the pivot 19 for the lever 10 is parts. slightly inward of the vertical plane of the The casing comprises a box-like portion 1 pivot for the tumbler. By this arrangement and a face-plate Q, secured to the part 1 by the lever cannot be manipulated to disengage 3 means of screws, and these screws will also it from the notch 12 by drawing pressure on serve to secure the complete device to the side the hook 5, and therefore there is no possiwall of a stall or other support near the front bility of a horse releasing himself.

of the stall. Mounted to swing on a stud 3 in Having thus described my invention, lclaim the casing is a tumbler 4, having a hook poras new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 35 tlon 5 at its outer end, with which the tie-strap 1. Ahorse-relcaser comprising a casing, a

ring 6 is designed to engage. This hook porspring-pressed tumbler in said casing and. hav- 8 5 tion, with the upper member of the casing, ingahook portion, a lever having an end porforms,substantially,aclosedeyewhentheparts tion curved upward, the said tumbler being are together, preventing any possibility of the provided at its lower edge with a notch to re- 4 ring being accidentally detached. The tumbler ceive said end portion, and means for rocking is held in its rein-engaging position by means the lever out of engagement with the tumbler. of a spring 7, attached to a stud 8 in the cas- 2. Ahorse-releasercomprisingacasinghav-- ing and engaging its free end with a lug 9 at ing notches at the inner ends of its outer walls, the inner end of the tumbler and at its lower a tumbler mounted to swing in the casing and 45 edge. An operating-lever 10 in the casing has having a hook portion for projecting across its forward end 11 curved upward to engage the plane of said notches, a spring for removin a notch 12 in the lower edge of the tumbler. ing the tumbler to releasing position, a lever The inner end of the lever 10 is extended befor holding the tumbler in closed position, and tween lingers 13 14 on the lower end of a remeans for actuating said lever.

S. A horse-releaser comprising a casing, a

tumbler arranged in the casing and having a hook portion, a spring for moving the tumbler in one direction, the said tumbler having a notch in its lower edge, a lever having an upwardly-turned end for engaging in said notch,

the pivotal point of said lever being inward of a vertical line through the pivot for the tumbler, a draw-bar movable in the casing, and fingers extended from said draw-bar for receiving the end of said lever between them.

i. A horse-releaser comprising a casing, a spring-pressed tumbler arranged in the casing 

